Sentence examples for sketchy knowledge from inspiring English sources

Until the 19th century, based on the sketchy knowledge of morbidity, the leech was a marvel of versatility.

Dozens of interviews with Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona and New Mexico over the last week found many with only sketchy knowledge of the new law.

On that morning with the recruitment manager, my sketchy knowledge about his range of beers did not get me too far.

Lasted: A year Harriet Miers The gig: Supreme Court nominee The frenzy: Could a friend of George W. Bush who had never served as a judge and seemed to possess sketchy knowledge of the law possibly make it through confirmation?

Paul Valéry, in his funerary tribute in La Nouvelle Revue Française, makes a virtue out of his admittedly sketchy knowledge of Proust by claiming: "The interest of the book lies in each fragment.

Younger Japanese display at best a sketchy knowledge of the Japanese imperial conquest in the 1930's, in part because the history curriculum in schools ends before that period.

Though he never says so, it will be obvious to anyone with the sketchiest knowledge of recent Irish history that the Troubles have also given Heaney access into the Beowulf poet's profound understanding of internecine strife.

That nearly ended in disaster when (again based on sketchy classical knowledge) I insisted peladophobia must mean fear of quizzes.

Despite the graffiti and glazed brickwork, it very much feels like a corporate take on the concept and the relatively mainstream nature of the beer selection - not to mention the staff's somewhat sketchy product knowledge – is not going to turn it into a destination for craft aficionados.

British people think the cost of raising a child is four times less than the actual amount, according to a survey by Ipsos Mori that suggests the public's financial knowledge is sketchy at best.

"Their size and scale are what they try to quantify, but our knowledge very sketchy".